Self indulgence on a truly mammoth scale- the most unnecessary film since Gus Van Sant’s Psycho, King Kong is hugely entertaining but totally empty. You could see it coming, too- The Return Of The King was a messy, overboiled ending to an otherwise excellent saga, but even the basic character work that enlivened that epic sprawl is missing here- Naomi Watts and Adrien Brody are empty shells, and as for Jack Black’s feeble Welles impersonation… he should stick to rockin’. The monkey acts them all off the screen. Jackson’s setpieces are inspired- the brontosaurus chase and the T-Rex attack are ludicrously exciting, action with a sense of speed and dynamism never before seen onscreen- but one can’t shake the feeling that it all could have been done in half the time- in fact, it was.
by Tom Huddleston | Source: DVD
28 Mar 2006 7:13 AM | Submit Comment
